Abdel Raouf Dafri

Abdel Raouf Dafri (born 13 August 1964 in Marseille and raised near Lille) is a French film and television scriptwriter. Born in a family of Algerian Arabic descent, he became interested in television and film writing.

His first television series was La Commune, which was aired in 2007 on French television. He has collaborated on films with such directors as Julien Leclerq, Jean-Francois Richet, and writer/ director Jacques Audiard. With the latter, he co-created Un prophète (A Prophet) (2009), which was nominated for a 2010 Academy Award as Best Foreign Film and received awards in Europe.